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Life is about choices and decisions...
about who you love and who you hurt.
Can you make others feel joy, be happy today?
Or do you seek pleasure in your power to hurt.
Life is about integrity and honesty and trust...
who you betray, lies on your lips and deceit in your heart.
Can you make loved ones and friends feel safe and secure?
Or do you seek pleasure in your power to hurt.
Life is about jealousy, fear, ignorance and revenge...
who you despise and who you avenge.
Can you cause others to cringe in your wake?
Do you seek pleasure in your power to hurt?
Life is about friendship...
gentle, solid...loyal and true.
Can you make friends with a stranger you meet?
Or do you seek pleasure in your power to hurt?
Life is about the decision to choose...
who you will nurture, who you will abuse.
Can you give up the need to posses and control?
Will you seek pleasure in the power to love?
Life is a choice. God allows us a voice...
destruction and pain, selfish and vain,
or open and honest, caring and sharing.
Can you find pleasure in the power of love?
Lindy Jo Jones
© 2000
The fruit of Silence is Prayer.
The fruit of Prayer is Faith.
The fruit of Faith is Love.
The fruit of Love is Service.
The fruit of Service is Peace.
The fullness of our heart is expressed in our eyes,
in our touch, in what we write,
in what we say, in the way we walk,
the way we receive, the way we need.
That is the fullness of our heart
expressing itself in many different ways.
Mother Teresa
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